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Tea Parties
'We Might As Well Be Able To Vote For Disney': Tea Partiers Slam Citizens United Ruling
Zachary Roth | February 3, 2010, 9:20AM
Tea party in Hartford, Connecticut in 2009
Some Tea Partiers are expressing vocal opposition to the Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down the ban on corporate political spending -- a stance that puts them at odds with the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement.
Just hours after the court ruled last month, RNC chair Michael Steele praised the decision, calling it "an important step in the direction of restoring the First Amendment rights" of corporations.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (54) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (6)Topics: Campaign Finance, Dale Robertson, FreedomWorks, Jim Knapp, Kevin Smith, Shane Brooks, Supreme Court, Tea Parties, Tea Party Patriots
Tea Party Nation
Tea Party Convention Organizer Used 'Our Passion For The Movement To Build His Start-Up'
Zachary Roth | January 13, 2010, 11:22AM
National Tea Party Convention organizer Judson Phillips
The organizer of the National Tea Party Convention, at which Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann will speak next month, cynically took advantage of conservative activists' willingness to work on behalf of the Tea Party cause in his bid to launch a money-making enterprise, according to one fellow Tea Partier.
Kevin Smith told TPMmuckraker that Judson Phillips, the Nashville defense lawyer behind the upcoming National Tea Party Convention, abruptly turned Tea Party Nation into a for-profit corporation last year, shocking fellow activists who had discussed setting up the fledgling group as a non-profit.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (65) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (4)Topics: Judson Phillips, Kevin Smith, Tea Parties, Tea Party Nation
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